Nac mac Feegle wha hae!
(If you think I'm talking too much like a drunk pictsie, or you just don't know what a pictsie is, why dont you http://google.it/search?q=Rob+Anybody)
If you're a newbie who thinks that tutoring from a lowly 18k can be good for his go, feel free to leave a message here or at KGS. I live it GMT+2 and play mostly in the evenings.
Mentor: uncoil
I'm currently watching the progress of Somaa, which can hardly be called mentoring, as I we are too close in strength and I refrain from commenting things I don't understand well.
If you play him, be sure to punish him if he does another double hane on the first line ;)
RobAnybody/Learning RobAnybody/Progress
20 Sep 2004: What I learned today ;)
aburry (5k): you can't keep it all
RobAnybody (23k?): yes, greed and gluttony ... go is a very good moral tutor :)
aburry (5k): you want half the board +1
You can see the game in question here: http://kgs.kiseido.com/games/2004/9/20/RobAnybody.sgf
Many thanks to aburry who reviewed our game! It featured a couple of invasions, and a discussion on whether a 2 point jump on the third line makes a living shape (I still am not sure of the answer)
11 Oct 2004: Attack vs Defense moves. From a review of a game between Somaa and hurkle. Hurkle says: Contact play is for defense, loose play is for attack I need to read more on that concept.
I started studying go at the end of 2003, but spent most of the time reading HikaruNoGo, and then for a long period only found time to solve the occasional couple of Tsumego :(
1 March 2004 The Bulgarian Go Association was founded.
In April 2004, two Japanese pro players came to Bulgaria, yay!
Abe Yoshiteru Sensei (9d) and
Shigeno Yuki Sensei (2d) stayed a couple of days and played with us, the members of the newly founded BGA.
At the same time the first official tournament was held, I was the last :| In my defense, I have to say that these were my first 19x19 games ever ;)
In September 2004 I started playing go again (RobAnybody on KGS).
23 Sep 2004: 20 kyu (my KGS rating reached my 'real' one)
17 Oct 2004: 19 kyu (I was 19? for a while)
23 Oct 2004: 18 kyu
28 Oct 2004: Just finished my folding goban: /FoldingGoban
29 Oct 2004: Yay! My first session with my mentor uncoil.
11 Nov 2004: 17 kyu, after winning a game I should have lost :( I wouldn't call this 'progress' really.
(Sebastian:) Thank you for your precious contributions to GetStrongAtRearrangingTerritories. Did you make the cover design? It looks really professional.
Heh, thanks - but the design is a ripoff of the Kiseido books on go, and the cover image is of course from HikaruNoGo, vol.3, chapter 19, where we see Mitani rearranging some territories :) Now I even realize that the image should have a black border too, but nevermind.
(Sebastian:) I see! I should have known better - the orginal books don't have such great graphics on the cover! :-)
Oh, BTW, does "Rob Anybody" have anything to do with Robbin' Hood? That guy at least didn't rob just anybody :-P
WillerZ Yin, tan, tetra! I suspect it refers to Rob Anybody Feegle, the big man. He steals ships.
Crivens, who 're ye a-callin' "man", ye bigjob?! Ach, I'll gi'e ye sucha kickin'! Aye, we pictsies might go a-stealin' a beastie or two -- we like them moo-beasties best, lotsa meals they got on 'emselfs, an ye catch me meanin', but when we cannae get 'un, a coulpa ships might do wonders tae yer belly, ye ken *snigger*, *snigger*
Wally, wally me, I shouldnae writ me name onna paper lest them looyers come 'n put me inna jail. It comes tae nae good, a-havin' yer name writ on paper ... hey, Sebastian, an ye is 'un o' them looyers, ye wouldnae be a-thinkin' o' puttin' this fine lad here inna jail, are ye?
(Sebastian:) Of course not! Not after he left a nice message on my home page! OTOH, I hope he isn't aspiring to become a preacher, either :-P